The CCAI is a culture general assessment designed to assess an individual's cross-cultural adaptability. The authors identified behavioral, emotional and problem-solving skills that are related to successful cross-cultural adaptation. The CCAI helps individuals gain self-awareness about their potential for cross-cultural effectiveness. It is a strong measure of the psychological factors that are crucial to success in cross-cultural interactions and situations.

The CCAI is designed to respond to practical concerns which are expressed both by culturally diverse and cross-culturally oriented populations and by the trainers and professionals who work with them. These needs are to understand the factors or qualities which can enhance cross-cultural effectiveness; to become self-aware regarding those factors or qualities in which on is strong and those which need improvement; to decide whether to work in a culturally diverse or multinational company, whether to live abroad, and so on; to prepare to enter another culture through training customized to the individual; and to improve skills in interacting with people from other cultures when one is already in a mutilcultural or new cultural setting.

Scales

• Emotional Resilience (ER) Scale - Helps measure the degree to which an individual can rebound and react positively to new experiences
• Flexibility/Openess (FO) Scale - Helps measure the extent to which a person enjoys the different ways of thinking and behaving that are typically encountered in the cross-cultural experience.
• Perceptual Acuity (PAC) Scale - Helps measure the extent to which a person pays attention to and accurately perceives various aspects of the environment.
• Personal Autonomy (PA) Scale - Helps measure the extent to which an individual has evolved a personal system of values and beliefs and at the same time respect others and their value system.